Leesa
Warren Scout
I've recently got back from working away and have got my 2 bunnies back, who have been living at my parents. One of them I have always had to watch out with his cecotropes - he has a tendency not to eat them all and gets messy. They have very healthy appetites (like always hungry) and eat a really good amount of hay and I have to monitor that he doesn't eat too much (often supplementing the others food because he would just wolf it all down). They are on Science Selective, they are coming up to 4 years old so not sure whether the senior version might work better for him. My mum has had issues with him being too poopy and I've told her she must have been feeding him too much and/or too much vegetables. When I got him back I had to tackle his dirty bum and have been encouraging hay and the pieces of branches they love. He's still been getting Science Selective and I've cut back on the vegetables he's had (no where near as much as I used to feed) to just herbs, broccoli only 1 day and some sweetheart cabbage (1 half piece each per day). I've been keeping an eye on him and found the problem seems to be that be will eat most of his cecotropes, there's not any in their housing area etc, but have found him asleep on them - like he's too lazy when he's sleepy to eat them. I'm at the point now where I'm debating changing their food to see if this assists as I don't feel he's getting many pellets at all. The other rabbit has absolutely no issues with this - she is always nice and clean.
Edited just to add he has had no fruit this week since I got home. I will be cutting down his food even more to just a tiny bit and hay. My mum has been giving them different hay as they usual farm I ordered from they don't seem as fussed with, so I just checked and the one they love at the moment is Timothy hay. They used to love the Inge's hay.
If I look to change over their pellet food do I need to decrease the protein? From what I've read it looks like I might need to increase the fibre. It's the standard Science Selective they are on now. Thanks
Edited just to add he has had no fruit this week since I got home. I will be cutting down his food even more to just a tiny bit and hay. My mum has been giving them different hay as they usual farm I ordered from they don't seem as fussed with, so I just checked and the one they love at the moment is Timothy hay. They used to love the Inge's hay.
If I look to change over their pellet food do I need to decrease the protein? From what I've read it looks like I might need to increase the fibre. It's the standard Science Selective they are on now. Thanks
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